Re: [liberationtech] Introducing The GovLab Digest: covering innovations in Governance, delivered weekly

2015-02-17 Thread J.M. Porup
Rich Kulawiec: On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 07:17:18PM +0100, Christian Huldt wrote: Who are mailchimps.com and why should I trust them? Spammers for hire, and no, you shouldn't -- doubly so since (like many such operations) they embed unique-per-recipient tracking links in every message they

Re: [liberationtech] secure voice options for china?

2015-02-17 Thread ITechGeek
While we have no consensus, most of these options are using similar stuff at the encrypted layers. Realistically as long as the encryption is good, the Chinese gov't can only block stuff by host/IP/protocol, I think all the VPN providers listed are taking active steps to change IPs and obscure

Re: [liberationtech] secure voice options for china?

2015-02-17 Thread Tim Libert
thanks all for the many good suggestions! however, in absence of a clear consensus, I will advise my friend to avoid voice and stick to encrypted email. my understanding is that the new leadership in china isn’t f#cking around, so the risk/reward equation here suggests heightened caution -

Re: [liberationtech] secure voice options for china?

2015-02-17 Thread Seth David Schoen
Tim Libert writes: thanks all for the many good suggestions! however, in absence of a clear consensus, I will advise my friend to avoid voice and stick to encrypted email. my understanding is that the new leadership in china isn’t f#cking around, so the risk/reward equation here suggests

[liberationtech] BitTorrent, VPS and no DMCA

2015-02-17 Thread Virilha
just had found being able to run a torrent seed box (in a medium bandwidth VPS, cheap) without getting DMCA requests, restarting daemon every 240 seconds - new randomized port on each restart. Using Deluge as torrent program and 8 lines of bash script to do the restart job. i forgot the

[liberationtech] CfP 4th GCEG Oxford: Digital Growth Entrepreneurship at the Margins

2015-02-17 Thread Nicolas Friederici
Session: Growth Entrepreneurship at the Margins: Digital Production and Innovation in Low-Income Contexts Call for Papers: 4th Global Conference on Economic Geography (GCEG), Oxford August 19-23, 2015 *Session Organisers: Nicolas Friederici, Mark Graham (Oxford Internet Institute)* *See

Re: [liberationtech] Introducing The GovLab Digest: covering innovations in Governance, delivered weekly

2015-02-17 Thread Steven Clift
Excellent service! Definitely subscribe. On Feb 13, 2015 11:33 AM, Maria Hermosilla ma...@thegovlab.org wrote: Hi! If you and your colleagues are not yet familiar with The GovLab Digest, please take a moment to review the current issue http://eepurl.com/bee691. The Digest, delivered

Re: [liberationtech] Introducing The GovLab Digest: covering innovations in Governance, delivered weekly

2015-02-17 Thread Christian Huldt
Who are mailchimps.com and why should I trust them? (providing a name is enhancing trust, but I don't personally know Ben Chestnut) 2015-02-17 15:42, Steven Clift skrev: Excellent service! Definitely subscribe. On Feb 13, 2015 11:33 AM, Maria Hermosilla ma...@thegovlab.org

Re: [liberationtech] Introducing The GovLab Digest: covering innovations in Governance, delivered weekly

2015-02-17 Thread Rich Kulawiec
On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 07:17:18PM +0100, Christian Huldt wrote: Who are mailchimps.com and why should I trust them? Spammers for hire, and no, you shouldn't -- doubly so since (like many such operations) they embed unique-per-recipient tracking links in every message they send. Last time I

[liberationtech] FLOSS4P2P: distributed FLOSS for communities (London, March)

2015-02-17 Thread Samer
*FLOSS4P2P: Call for Participation* A 2-day London workshop in March, gathering *FLOSS projects* that are building software for *peer production and organization*, with a focus on *distributed* platforms. *Scholarships* to attend are offered to grassroots communities. ** Context ** We know that

Re: [liberationtech] Introducing The GovLab Digest: covering innovations in Governance, delivered weekly

2015-02-17 Thread Paul Ferguson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Speaking as a Technical Area Co-Chair for M3AAWG [1], I would like to comment on this. Mailchimp is a M3AAWG member company in good standing, and if you know anything about M3AAWG, you should understand that companies which violate the code of